We Need Some Magic

Normalcy bias is a bitch. Particularly bitchy when you’re the bitch and in this implosion we’re all bitches. Our freedoms are now gone. Simple human interactions like hugging and shaking hands are now forbidden. Social interactions are severely impacted placing strain on our emotional stability and threatening the fabric that holds our daily lives together. Do not minimize this impact on the longer term  health of our recovery. 

And speaking of recovery, there will be multiple announcements this year trumpeting a recovery and each announcement of success will end in failure. Unlike 2009 when they conned us with their printing press and lies, this will be a series of disasters, that will rock the normalcy bias they created for ten years. So yes, you will soon hear we’ve defeated COVID 19 and all is well……..it won’t be defeated. 

You’ll hear the economy is “roaring” back. It might whimper back, but the only roar you will hear is the media and government in a coordinated effort to instill in us the “animal spirits” are back mantra. 

We took an arrow to our chest and we are bleeding out. We’ll be able to walk for awhile and hold our head up but we’ll keep oozing out our remaining blood as the arrow blade does its work in our body. 

You can’t close down and shutter millions of businesses and then put them back on line in a few months and say “all is well”….but they will. That I do know will happen. 

I also believe that COVID 19 will have multiple starts and stops as it weaves its damage through our ranks. You have no idea how bad this shit is, unless you have been paying attention to the frontline of doctors and nurses and the patients that have had it. I’ve taken care of my first two patients and they were both in their 20s and healthy. Both are very ill and cold wind up on vents. Good luck if you have normalcy bias and think this is all BS. Its not and its damage to our economy is already a mortal wound. 

We had a fake economy before COVID and now we have a dead economy.